Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. A member of Medical Education Planning Committee of Humber River Hospital; and Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee of St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto.

She completed a 2 year pre-med program and graduated with an MD degree in 1988 from the University of Alberta. She started her first year of medical practice in Rural Family Medicine in Elliot Lake, Ontario in 1990, and has subsequently been practising comprehensive family medicine in Mississauga and Etobicoke with active involvement in Continuing Medical Education, and community teaching of various health professionals.

She has received an MBA degree at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in 1997 on completion of a two year EMBA program while maintaining a full time medical practice in Mississauga.